Sharon Eby is the TBRC West Regional Leader & Dr. Bruce Cornet is the Deputy
Administrator of NIDS. They both interviewed the witnesses in their current
respective locations for this compiled report. (NOTE: This was in
2004 and titles are no longer applicable)

PART I - INTERVIEW REPORT by Sharon Eby (Cornet)

April 11, 2004 (Interview with witness Hector Valles on Thurs, April 8) I spoke with
the witness, Hector Valles, here in El Paso at his place of residence. The story of
his and his friend Edgar Ramos hearing the screams of what they (he) believed to be a
bigfoot creature was exactly as he had submitted on his original online sighting report
last October. I did find out more details, however, including obtaining a map of the
area with the exact location of the occurrence, as well as a hand-drawn map of the
campground area and the direction that the creature came from and moved towards. I
will make these maps available for the final report.

A correction by Hector regarding the date of the sighting was given to me as Summer
(mid-July) of 1995, rather than 1996. The time of the sighting was anywhere from 11pm to
1am, he is unsure of just where in there it happened. The weather was clear, dry, and the
evenings were cool enough up in the mountains to need a jacket. Sighting occurred in
Lincoln County, NM. The area is wooded (although thinly within the campground itself), and
the grounds were nestled between two hills in a more flat area at the bottom. Mountains
and hills surround the area, and are heavily wooded with pine trees, etc. Hector was
unsure of any caves, mines, or abandoned shelters in the area at all. In the campground
there was a hand water pump and a puddle beneath it but he was not aware of any bodies of
water outside of the campground. No bigfoot creature was seen by Hector, and he said his
friend Edgar did not see it either, they only heard it screaming (Hector showed me a sound
byte from the BFRO website ( http://www.bfro.net/AVEVID/MJM/Howl.mp3
) which still sends chills up his spine and that reminded him a LOT of the screams he and
Edgar heard that night). They were awakened from within their tent in the night by a
screaming in the distance that sounded like a cross between a woman and a baby. Hector
stated that the sounds continued, with pauses in between, from very far in the distance,
until they came closer, and into the campground. He (they) could tell that the creature
was not human, nor did it sound like any animal they had ever heard before (their first
thought was that it was a bear, except that bears did NOT make that kind of noise!). The
creature, they thought, was walking through the campground checking out the 4 spots or so
where campers were at, and possibly foraging for food. The creature got to their camp and
stood near the fire pit, or between the fire pit and their tent. Total distance was
estimated to be at approximately 20 to 25 feet away from the tent. The creature continued
to scream and pause, grunting and sounding like it was sniffing in the pauses. Then it
would scream LOUD again and it started to walk off into the forest. The witnesses dared
not poke their heads out of the tent because of the fear of possible danger. The only
weapon they had was a hammer, which they held onto tightly, just in case.

They could hear the creature walk away from their tent and by the time it got far
enough away they could no longer hear it they were finally able to settle down and get
some sleep. Estimated time from the first screams they heard until the last screams they
heard were approximately 10-15 minutes, which indicates that the being was able to travel
quite fast. The creature seemed to know exactly where it was going. Hector and Edgar got
up the next morning and looked for tracks, but none were found.

End of Report Part I (Part II - Interview with Edgar Ramos continues
below...)

ADDITIONAL STORIES GIVEN BY HECTOR VALLES:

Hector Valles remembers being at a party once in May of 1985 at the Tom Mays State Park
on the west side of the Franklin Mountains in El Paso, TX. He got together with a bunch of
friends to drink beer and talk and hang out. After a few beers they got into a deep
discussion about God, one of their friends not believing in such. They would walk up the
hill to go to the bathroom, but Hector had an ominous feeling and so went downhill
instead, where his friends could see him in case anything should happen. Two friends (one
who believed in God) and another, named Norma, went up the hill when it was their turn to
go to the bathroom... he went left and she went right. After a little bit they came back
saying, "Get out of here!" The guy was pale looking, even in the moonlight.
Neither he nor Norma wanted to talk about what had happened. The next week the man
admitted to seeing a "tall humanoid" that was "furry" hovering over
Norma, but she didn't see anything, although she could FEEL it's breath behind her. It
scared them both very much.

Another story Hector Valles has relayed was about two friends of his who are married.
They recently went to Hector's house and he showed them the sound byte of the bigfoot
scream from the BFRO website. The woman, Pati, listened to it and realized that she had
also heard that same kind of scream before. She told him about when she was young, and
lived in Juarez, Mexico (adjacent to El Paso) near the Rio Grande and old El Paso ASARCO
copper smelting plant and how they (she and her friends) would have to cross an old revine
to get home as kids. They would sometimes forget the time and wind up coming home in the
dark. Her mother had warned them of the "creature" that was "going to get
you" so to be home earlier than dark. On the way home one night she heard a scream
which sounded like the scream Hector had showed her on the internet. She also remembers
hearing the same noises from bed at night many times.

The Type of Incident:Screams or cries made by some
unknown animal that approached the tent of the witnesses and then moved away (Hector
Valles's description), while they were camping near Cloudcroft, NM. Date of Incident: Late August 1995 (just before 26 August. Edgar
remembered because 26 April is his birthday, and it was only a couple days or so before
his birthday). Time of Incident: Near Midnight, and definitely after they had gone to
bed and Edgar was sound asleep. He did not check the time. Weather Conditions: Chilly but not cold, due to higher altitude during
the Summer. Hectar had told Edgar to bring a jacket, and although it was still hot
in El Paso, he was glad he had brought a jacket. It had not been raining as far as
he can recall. Being inside the tent, he did not know if it was cloudy or clear at
the time of the incident.Location of Incident:White Sands National Monument Area
Campgrounds just north of Cloudcroft, NM (# 14 on map).

Topographic map of area around Cloudcroft, NM.

Description of Area of Incident: Edgar recalls Hector driving on NM State Road 244,
turning into a campground, and parking near the main road. He also recalls pitching
their tent within eyesight of Hector's car, and that the ground was relatively level (no
slope or incline). There were a few other cars and campers at this site. It was
forested with open areas for pitching tents and parking cars.

There are no known caves, mines, or abandoned shelters in the area. The nearest
bodies of water are small to large lakes about 21-22 miles west near Alamogordo, NM.
The area around Cloudcroft has many small ephemeral streams coming off numerous hills and
small mountains.

No actual sighting of an animal was made by Edgar or by Hector. All they both
heard were screaming sounds made by some unknown animal. Edgar says Hector woke him
up out of a sound sleep, and being drowsy, he doesn't know how long he listened to the
animal sounds, but it was for more than 10 screams.

Edgar said Hector kept saying, "Do you hear that?" and "What is
it?" A sound similar to what Edgar says he heard can be found at www.angelfire.com/wa/sasquatchsearch/images/BIGFEET.wav.
Edgar chose that particular sound after listening to several alleged Bigfoot sounds on
that website.

Because he was not afraid, he went back to sleep. If the screams were consecutive
without much time in between them as in the above recording, he listened for less than one
minute before going back to sleep. He said he could have listened longer, but
not much more than five minutes before falling asleep. Edgar said Hector appeared
visibly upset and afraid, staid up past when he fell back to sleep, and the next morning
told him more about what had happened. Edgar was not aware that the animal making
the sounds came close to their tent. Nor was he aware of any strange odors.
They did not examine the area for tracts, and they did not ask any of the other campers
whether they had heard the screams that night. Edgar said Hector asked one of the
park rangers about animals that screamed in the night, and the ranger said the area had
many cougars that occasionally would make scream-like sounds (possibly females in heat).

Investigator comment from Sharon Eby (Cornet) and Dr. Bruce
Cornet: Hector may not have been aware that Edgar fell back to sleep and thought he
was still listening to the creature. Edgar stated he was very groggy and tired and
soon fell asleep after hearing the initial screams.

Additional Investigators comment: Edgar stated he figured on
hearing animals in the woods and did not feel threatened, however Hector was quite afraid
and stayed awake until the creature had come through the camp and passed on by, fading
into the distance. It is strange that Edgar, even though groggy, could sleep through
such screams so close to the camp. (paranormal indicator similar to alleged alien
abduction scenarios?)